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...South Coventry, Conn. last week, a crowd of 2,000 gathered in the meadows and lawns of an old homestead to honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings...
...Panmunjom, he turned diplomat. Said a fellow negotiator: "The orders came from Washington to ease up on some points. Burke didn't like that, but he'd go back in there day after day and doubletalk those people wonderfully. He'd come-back to his tent at night and rage about the Communists, but he never lost his temper or turned a hair when he was talking to them...
That night, Micah drops in on a traveling tent show to sneer at the worshipers of the pagan gods, Astarte and Baal. But one gander at luscious Lana Turner, High Priestess of Astarte, and Micah is aquiver...
...Lucknow, capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh, 1,000 husbands and wives gathered in a tent colony on the banks of the sacred Gomati. Fifty-one saffron-robed priests lit a sacrificial fire in their midst, blew conch shells and chanted mantras before a large statue of Gauri, wife of the Lord Shiva, god of creation and destruction. Then, in solemn silence, the husbands and wives bathed in the river and sat down in pairs, face to face. Basing their action on Lord Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops...
Although it was held in the Commonwealth Armory instead of a tent and sponsored by General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice instead of Billy Graham, "Motorama of 1955" could be best described as a revival meeting. To the 150,000 Bostonians who made a pilgrimage to the Armory over the weekend the 100 exhibits were so many sacred objects. Their devotion was often too deep to remain silent, and some of them hoped against against hope that Providence (or Detroit) might see fit to bestow one of these blessings on their family...